The enzymic dehydration of tartaric acid to oxaloacetic acid, first established…for the d-isomer, occurs also with the meso- and l-isomers, and the attack on all three tartaric acids by bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas appears to occur principally by means of stereospecific dehydrases.

In John and Salomé, Salomé's nipples are angry blossoms, her black navel vulval, tendrilous, vaguely insectimorphic.

His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.

To one side of the barn was a remuda of work-horses, perhaps twenty in all.